Data Subject - What You Need To Know

For a long time, Kenya has lacked a comprehensive personal data protection legislation which has been quite necessary in this age of digital use and access. This has exposed citizens to the risk of their personal data being misused. ...

The Data Protection Act, No. 24 of 2019 (the DPA) was enacted into law on 11 November 2019 through Gazette Supplement Number 181. The provisions of the DPA gives life to Article 31 (c) and (d) of the Constitution of Kenya which guarantees the right to privacy including the right of a person not to have information relating to their family or private affairs unnecessarily required or revealed and the right not to have the privacy of their communications infringed....

Technology has so strongly been synced to our everyday lives and as a result, data security is both personal and a corporate consideration. Personal computer and mobile phone users are faced with concerns on the accessibility of their devices and the data contained in the same way that businesses are concerned with customer data....

One of the distinct changes made to the way we handle and perceive personal data relates to responding to a breach of personal data....

Any context requiring or necessitating the use of personal data requires taking steps to comply with the Data Protection Act, 2019 (the Act), including where personal data is to be shared or processed within a transactional context. ...